2009-2010 NBA Season

[st.lewis11]

Blake Griffin broke his knee cap. That's two number one picks in the last three years with exploding knees before opening night. I guess it skips a generation. Nic Batum is out for months with sholder surgery. Bummer. He is an exciting young Blazer and perhaps their best defender.

wow awful, griffin's one of my starting forwards in fantasy. noooooooooooooo

What a disaster for the Clippers; I felt they were starting to put together a pretty good team....I'm wondering if there's truly a curse on them.

[thrill]

I couldn't be happier that Agent 0 is back.

[MrSaigon]

I think Atlanta is going to be an exciting team this year. They added Jamal Crawford to the bench. They have a lot of weapons.

[phins]

A lot of people like Atlanta this year...they do have a lot of firepower. Will still have a hard time getting past the 2nd round.

My Pistons are going to be in trouble this year I'm afraid. They might be the shortest team in the NBA, as they have little size underneath, and not much length on the wings (Tayshaun Prince has really slipped defensively). Getting Austin Daye back next game will help, but I'm not sure they can defend enough to make the playoffs, and will definitely need to add size to do anything in the playoffs.

The rumored deal of Kaman for Rip obviously won't happen now that Griffin is hurt, but that could have really helped the team this year.

[thrill]

The rumored deal of Kaman for Rip obviously won't happen now that Griffin is hurt, but that could have really helped the team this year.

Yeah I've never really understood why you need Rip and Ben Gordon. Same guy but shorter.

[phins]

The rumored deal of Kaman for Rip obviously won't happen now that Griffin is hurt, but that could have really helped the team this year.

Yeah I've never really understood why you need Rip and Ben Gordon. Same guy but shorter.

Completely agree on no need to have them both. I'm not sure I really agree about the same guy part. Rip plays an intermediate game, and relies on movement and other people passing him the ball in a good spot to get his shot off, and doesn't really shoot it great from 3. Gordon is a quicker player, who likes to have the ball in his hands and will shoot from 3 a ton. Rip has never been a player, in the pros anyway, that likes to take the big shots. That was always Billups or Sheed. Gordon loves to take, and make, big shots. Rip is bigger, as you say, and attacks the basket a lot better than Gordon does as well.

Would like to trade Prince or Rip and move Gordon into the starting lineup. The problem I see is that Gordon needs the ball in his hands to be effective, and Stuckey needs the ball in his hands to be effective, and we have no one to dump the ball into the post to, and get a bucket. Hard to win a lot of games when you rely on jump shots all night, and especially when you aren't great defensively like the Pistons.

Oh yeah, I absolutely hate Charlie V. If anyone starts an "I Hate Charlie V" club, I'll join that group.

[thrill]

Looks like it didn't take you very long to figure out Ben Gordon. The way he needs to have the ball in his hands makes it hard to put him in the starting lineup when it's more important to get the ball in other hands. That's how the Bulls used him. They put him in when it was ok if he hogged it and sat him when they wanted to start running an actual real offense. Then we got Rose and it became apparent that he gets the ball at all times and with Gordon being a bit of black hole, Derrick couldn't run an offense.

[PujolJunkie]

Bulls opener tonight at home. Excited. Gotta follow basketball this year like I care. I just wish I could watch the Bulls more.

[MrSaigon]

I actually got to watch the Blazers game. I wasn't sure I'd see one all year. To temper my excitement Reggie Miller was calling the game. Tough, tough loss that Portland pissed away. I hope they win their games against crappy teams, because they have some stuff to figure out. But they can and I think they will.

Greg Oden looks absolutely horrible with flashes of not being completely crappy. He had a great 'spring training,' he earned the starting spot over Pryzbilla who is an excellent center. The problems are in his head (if not his knees). After missing those free throws, I hope he won't be playing in that situation again until he shows some mental fortitude in quarters 1-4.5.

NBA refereeing is also horrible. So Roy fouls Anthony but it isn't called, so Anthony barks at the refs. Next time down the two sort of touch each other and Roy is whistled. I'm not saying they wouldn't do that for Roy or Portland. It happens all the time and it's stupid. The refs let the fourth quarter belong to them and they didn't have to.

Carmello Anthony might be MVP this year.

[phins]

Anybody have any "way too soon" evaluations after one or two games? A couple from me...Cleveland still needs a coach who can get everyone involved. LeBron is doing everything out there, but that won't bring a title.

Detroit is going to have to trade for a big man to make playoffs this year. Might be shortest team in league.

Lakers are scary good this year. Atrest brings an element of toughness that Ariza just didn't bring. He can also defend any position on the court, and the Lakers are all about versatility. They will bring the title home again...